Botanical name: Osbeckia zeylanica    Family: Melastomataceae (Melastome family)
Synonyms: Osbeckia debilis, Osbeckia serialis, Osbeckia zeylanica var. non-rostrata

Ceylon Osbeckia is a perennial herb, up to 8 cm high; branches four-edged, bristly.Flowers are solitary or 2-3 together, at branch-ends or upper in leaf-axils, carried on flower-stalks 1.5 mm long. Petals are pink, 5 x 4 mm, obovate, hairless. Sepal-tube is 5 mm long, densely covered with clustered bristles, bristles 3-6 together, up to 7 mm long, sepals 4 mm long, tapering, fringed with hairs. Anthers are 4 mm long, tapering; style 3 mm long. Leaves are up to 1.5 x 0.6 cm, ovate-lanceshaped, pointed at either ends, minutely toothed, densely hairy; hairs half adnate, parallel to the midrib above, not adnate below. Ceylon Osbeckia is found in South-India, Sri Lanka, Indo-China. Flowering: November-February.

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